Four teens charged in Ajax mugging

Oshawa This Week

AJAX -- Four teens have been charged in the street-level robbery of a group of boys in Ajax last month.

Five 13-year-old boys were roughed up and robbed of items including cellphones, an MP3 player and a camera as they walked on a pathway between homes on Plowman Drive, in the vicinity of Harwood Avenue and Kingston Road, on the afternoon of Jan. 21, Durham police said.

Police have arrested four teenaged males in connection with the robbery. Charged are Raheem Smalling, 18, of Pickering, along with a 16-year-old Bowmanville male and a Toronto boy, also 16, and a 17-year-old boy from Ajax.

An investigation continues into a similar incident on the same day in Ajax. Cops said two 17-year-old boys were tackled and beaten by four masked males who fled with a cellphone.